Odaily Report: Ahead of the U.S. stock market open, the key market and financial news investors should watch is as follows:
1. U.S. three major stock index futures traded mixed. Dow Jones futures rose 0.73%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.10%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.88%.
2. International oil prices rose across the board. WTI crude oil futures rose 1.37% to $89.324 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures rose 2.15% to $96.659 per barrel.
3. International spot gold and silver both rose. Spot gold rose 1.47% to $4,119.64 per ounce; spot silver rose 0.67% to $52.55 per ounce.
4. Europe's three major stock indices all advanced. The UK's FTSE 100 rose 0.77%, France's CAC40 rose 0.96%, and Germany's DAX30 rose 0.65%.
5. Apple plans to cut its internal AI usage budget, lowering the daily spending cap for some engineers using AI models from $300 to $200 in order to control expenses.
6. Microsoft failed to reach a potential new deal worth tens of billions of dollars with UK AI startup Nscale. Microsoft refused to more than double the scale of its existing data center computing power leasing contract.
7. Goldman Sachs noted that the outcome of this U.S. midterm election may accelerate tech companies' capital expenditure through 2027 rather than suppress capital investment.
8. OpenAI reaffirmed that it will bear all costs generated by powering its data centers. For data centers it owns and operates, it will seek input from local communities and publicly disclose construction plans.
9. Optical communications leader Lumentum will release Q3 results after the bell tonight. The market consensus expects revenue of $1.248 billion, up about 138% year over year; adjusted earnings per share of $4.19, up about 307% year over year.
10. The U.S. Republican Party's midterm election setback may instead relieve a layer of political pressure on Fed Chair Warsh, allowing him to reduce interference from political factors and focus more on curbing inflation.
11. Challenger data showed that U.S. companies announced 43,994 job cuts in October, down 71% year over year, the lowest for the same period in three years.